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Carl Corpus scrambles well enough on the back nine to stay in command. —PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED
Carl Jano Corpus slumped to his worst score in three days, but his four-over-par 75 on Saturday still remains seven strokes ahead of Filipino-American Jaden Dumdumaya heading into the final round of the National Stroke Play Championship at the Langer Course of the Riviera Golf and Country Club in Silang, Cavite.
The 21-year-old Corpus bogged down with two bogeys and a bogey in the first six holes but was able to steady the ship home as Dumdumaya narrowed the gap to a huge 10-stroke deficit after shooting 72.
Corpus built on that big edge on Wednesday after a seemingly impossible version of 68 in difficult conditions in the second innings as he took his tally to 215 heading into the final innings on Saturday.
Aidric Chan 10 shot dead after 76, while Enrique Dimayuga, the second highly-touted young Fil-foreigner in the field, rebounded from the second round of 82 with 73 for two more dead shots.
Dumdumaya, the 16-year-old who took the lead in the first round with a 71 only to balloon to 79 the next day, again took the honor for the second time in three rounds with an effort highlighted by birdies on the 16th and 17th.
Junia Gabasa also maintained her lead in the women’s division with a second-round score of 71, leading fellow Cebuana Lois Kaye Go by seven after 54 holes for a 216. Go also posted her best score to date, 71-223.
Defending champion Mafy Singson’s 76 put Davao in third place with a score of 225, one shot ahead of Samantha Dizon, who had a 73.
Elee Bisera, Kristoffer Arevalo and Jacob Rolida, the trio that made up the Philippines team that finished 11th in last year’s Nomura Cup, were all bombed out of contention after losing in the third round.
Bisera fired a 77 to be 18 shots behind, with Arevalo, the defending champion, following a second-round 82 with an 81 for 240. Rolida returned after a 75.
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